Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Writing is rewriting—the magic happens in the edits.

I want my work to hold contradictions.

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Sustainability isn't an option; it's our responsibility to the next generation.