writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be