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

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. "

" 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. "

" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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