Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.