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

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.

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

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose.

You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.