There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.