A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.