I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.