You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.