Don't blindly follow any leader.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

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

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.