The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
“Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.”
“I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.”