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

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.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.