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" I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. "

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" 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. "

" Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. "

" Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? "

" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. "

" We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. "

" At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. "

" Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people. "

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

" 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. "

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

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

" All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. "

" 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. "

" I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "

" Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it. "

" 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. "

" Men and women, women and men. It will never work. "

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

" Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change. "

" I remember everything but forgive anyway. "

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

" 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. "