The idea of not being content with any level of success, doesn't by any means call for the absence of gratitude for your daily blessings.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.