Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.
Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped.
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth. "
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.