China Quote by Ann Aguirre

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in…

— Kim Hyesoon

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

— Rachel Zucker

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking”

— Carrie Lorig

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

— Tom Holt

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out…

— Francesca Lia Block

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite…

— James Parton