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.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.