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" Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. "

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" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

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

" He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. "

" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "

" 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 write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "

" 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. "

" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

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

" Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? "

" 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? "

" I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "

" I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. "

" 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. "

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

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