The real writer is one who really writes..

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

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..

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

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat other….

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark gl….

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..

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

Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for….

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..

History is a game played backwards only..

I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to ….

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

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

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

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and….

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

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex ….

I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor ge….

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been a….

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