I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.