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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. "

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

" Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. "

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

" I remember everything but forgive anyway. "

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

" The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "