I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to husband and son to bring the issue down to a more concrete level, the body is a different manifestation physically.

People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.