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

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

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

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.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.