 I think we still believe that ambition is for boys. |
| My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough. |
| Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. |
| Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully. |
| It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. |
| I never cared about money. |
| I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. |
| Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. |
| I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. |
| If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. |
| When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. |
| What you risk reveals what you value. |
| Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self. |
| I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped. |
| They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? |
| I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. |
| Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. |
| I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. |
| I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. |
| I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. |
