German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It d...istrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perceiving myself through others' ideas of what it means to be a woman has made it difficult for me to achieve the necessary commi...tment [to be a poet].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the hu...man currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until the Women's Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he'd like to publish more of my poems, but he'd alread...y published one by a woman that month ... this attitude was the rule rather than the exception, until the mid-sixties. Highest compliment was to be told, "You write like a man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that... those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »