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

Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love ha….

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the….

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

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroar….

The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why….

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

A 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..

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

The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 8….

Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their ….

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a re….

I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myse….

I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI m….

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

Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, persona….

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

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

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..

Like species, couples die out or evolve..

I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a….