Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.