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?
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.
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...
I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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...
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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.
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.
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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...
The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game . The man is not taking and the woman is not giving. No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate...
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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