I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.

No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.