There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.