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

I claimed myself and remade my life.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

I have a terrible memory.

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.

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

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