Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

I spend most of my time writing.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?