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

There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.