I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.