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

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

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

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.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.