The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.