I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.