I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

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

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.