In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.