Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.