Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Your only shame is to have shame.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.