There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Don't blindly follow any leader.
I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
