Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up