I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

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

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.