Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

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

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.