“If you can dream it, believe it, and are willing to put in the work for it, then you can achieve it!”

“With a pen in my hand I am fearless.”

“At the heart of everything I write is a love story.”

“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.”

“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”

“To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.”

“But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.”