If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.