I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

Poetry is fired by love.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Solitude is considered un-American.