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Shared laughter is erotic too.
The price of seeing is silence.
The powerful don't make revolutions
My idea of Hell is to be young again.
The work of the world is common as mud.
Like species, couples die out or evolve.
History is a game played backwards only.
The real writer is one who really writes.
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Pain is a forcing sieve that turns me to gruel.
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
I think we validate our lives through our actions.
Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.
It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.
i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people
Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
If what we change does not change us we are playing with blocks.
If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
We are trying to live as if we were an experiment conducted by the future
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.