I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.