- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
- Met
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020