I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.