And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions