I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

The right music and lyrics can infiltrate your soul.

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.