Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.