As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

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

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

To hear, one must be silent.