writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.