Life ain't the movies.

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

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

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.