Quotes About Sharon Olds

What was arousing, to me, for three decades, was faithfulness, the chains of orgasms extreme beyond violent in safety.

and anyways this boy knows what's what, he can look deep into his own heart and tell you the nature of the human - kindness, courtesy, force.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.