I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.

People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.