Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.