"I just want my stories to be mine."
- Lidia Yuknavitch
"I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney."
"Leslie Marmon Silko whispers the story is long. No, longer. Longer than that even. Longer than anything. With Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath drink at the bar. Laugh the dark laughter in the dark light. ..."
"But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you how i..."
"Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn’t it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone."
"Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies."
"I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldn’t let me. Some dee..."
"It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men."
"Words carry oceans on their small backs."
"She’s thinking about grief and trauma, how they can hide out inside a woman, how they can come back.The playwright follows her eyes, until he sees what she sees.The photographer’s framed image, the or..."