There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

You can't make homes out of human beings.