I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

I like the feeling of feeling my feelings.

We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.

Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.

Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that way, I cried it out all the time. I expressed my feelings.

I was always attracted to characters that were in some level of turmoil or suffering because I had so much of that in my own life and I wanted to channel it. I was always into darker things.

If I walk into my house and something is askew, I can't do anything until I fix it. It's so burdensome to live that way.

Everything is in our cellular level. My mom's is definitely in my cellular memory.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.

Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.

Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!