“Are you prepared for the first wound?”
“Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.”
“The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.”
“For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!”
“The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.”
“I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place”