“It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.”
“You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.”
“If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!”
“You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.”
“It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.”
“Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI can't find otherwiseexcept humiliation? Which I no longerneed.”