I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?