Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.