I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Always. ... The confidence that it will change is what makes bearing it possible. So pain is fluid. It is only when you conceive of it as something static that it is unbearable.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.