Better immersion than to live untouched.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

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

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

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.