Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.