Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

The universe is transformation.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.