We are all in the process of becoming.

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

We are powerful because we have survived

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

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling