I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

I still consider myself a feminist.