A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

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.

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.