It is true that my characters have sex.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

I don't really get into the power sufficiently, and that's also a problem for me.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."

As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.