The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.