I’ve had people look down on me and put me down because I didn’t look like them—but that didn’t stop me.

Everything is connected, everything.

The act of writing is an act of resistance.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

The poet's heart must be open to all the winds of heaven.

语言既是武器也是创伤，取决于谁握着笔。