For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers