We only have what we give.

For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.