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.

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

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

The powerful don't make revolutions

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