Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.