I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
From Alice Walker
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
I never talk about my next project.
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.
I start each book when it's ready and never before.
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