Pride Was My Wilderness, And The Demon

Women, As Well As Men, In All Ages And In All Places, Have Danced On The Earth, Danced The Life Dance, Danced Joy, Danced Grief, Danced Despair, And Danced Hope. Literally And Metaphorically, By Their Very Lives.

Know That Although In The Eternal Scheme Of Things You Are Small, You Are Also Unique And Irreplaceable, As Are All Your Fellow Humans Everywhere In The World.

Animals Are Less Alone With Roaring Than We Are With All These Words.

It Is My Feeling That As We Grow Older We Should Become Not Less Radical But More So. I Do Not, Of Course, Mean This In Any Political-party Sense, But Rather In A Willingness To Struggle For Those Things In Which We Passionately Believe. Social Activism And The Struggle For Social Justice Are Often Thought Of As The Natural Activities Of The Young But Not Of The Middle-aged Or The Elderly. In Fact, I Don't Think This Was Ever True.

If I Hadn't Had My Children, I Wouldn't Have Written More And Better, I Would Have Written Less And Worse.