If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound almost crazy to say this, say that the act of writing, for a woman, could be a homosexual act.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either. 

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.