Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

If it is worthy doing, it worth doing so well.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.