The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

My husband regarded my prison past as a dirty secret and never asked me one single question about it. But what I had experienced and witnessed was eating at me and I needed to "tell somebody."

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.