Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

I am a woman of prayer.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.