Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.