We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.