When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
Sharon OldsI have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.
Sharon OldsThere is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.
Sharon Olds