"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New…"

"So many of us! So many of us!We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible,Nudgers and shovers In spite o…"

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again."

"How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought."

"What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?"

"I happened to be at Cambridge. I was sent there by the [US] government on a government grant. And I'd read some of Te…"

"I am deeply grateful to the women who really blazed the way-poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and Maxine Kumin."

"Being born a woman is my awful tragedy."

"I am jealous of men. I envy the man his physical freedom to lead a double life."

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars wer…"