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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.