Olga Broumas Quotes

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.