Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life o...n her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best--out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, t...he singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a w...ay to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrib...le. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people. Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »