Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.