Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the lite….

My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dict….

People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible to have freedom in the world when half of huma….

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because th….

I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone..

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet..

As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact wit….

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet.….

What do I think of Pussy Riot actions? The act can be extremely positive if it is an act to call attention to the fact that things in their country a….

People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen as unsatisfied. But….

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people..

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me..