When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.