“I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!”

“The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...”

“Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.”

“When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.”

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”