Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.