I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.

Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

Particularly in relationship to my father - there's something that daughters, girl children, do almost instinctually in their relationships with their father, so that physically, those boundaries must be respected and never crossed.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.

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

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