Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them." That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good.

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.