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

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

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.

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.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.