we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.