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" Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. "

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" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "

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" I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. "

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" Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. "

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" Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. "

" Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. "

" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "

" Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. "

" My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. "

" I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. "

" There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. "

" Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork. "

" I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "

" Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. "

" As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living. "

" 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 groan. "

" It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. "

" Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. "

" Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. "

" I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly. "

" Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. "

" If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

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" I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. "

" The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

" People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. "

" When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "