A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

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.

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

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

I felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.