Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

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

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

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.