Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.

Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

Love is a dangerous angel.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.