Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

What is life without incompatible realities?

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

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.

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

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