The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.