Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.