I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.