First sentences are doors to worlds.

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.