The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day out.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.