It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

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

It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.