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

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" 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. "

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

" The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world. "

" In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. "

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" 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 think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "

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

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

" I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive. "

" I've never been able to control my public image. "

" I remember everything but forgive anyway. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on. "

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" 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. "

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