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The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third

I am my mother's daughter, ... I am her only novel.

The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

She would not be robbed of her ability to support herself, to do good work in the world, justly, compassionately.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

I think we validate our lives through our actions.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

History is a game played backwards only.

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

The powerful don't make revolutions

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

The price of seeing is silence.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles ... It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

I don't apologize for being sexually adventurous. Why not? It was often fun. When it wasn't - I didn't continue what wasn't pleasant.

We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

I like communicating with cats. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

Hate them more than you hate yourself, and you'll stay free!

When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

This life is a war we are not yet
winning for our daughters' children.
Don't do your enemies' work for them.
Finish your own.

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

Good will starts out fat and sweet
as tub butter and turns slowly rancid.
It must be made again daily
if we want it fresh.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.

She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Never let them know who you really are, how you live, and that you can observe and think, that was her motto.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.