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

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.