I prefer men to cauliflowers

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.