"Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces."

“I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.”

Source : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

“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. I am a poetess.”

“I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.”

“My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

Source : Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.

“No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.”

“We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.”

“I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.”