I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

It isn't success after all, is it, if it isn't an expression of your deepest energies?

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.