Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure