Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.