My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho....
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Solitude is un-American.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking e...
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they...
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
It took me to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take...
The soul is awakened through service.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.