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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.

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

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

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

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

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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Solitude is un-American.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

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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.

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

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