I Think I Would Have Died If

Babies Change Things, Open Doors You Thought Were Shut, Close Others. Make You Into Something You Never Been.

That Was What Gospel Was Meant To Do - Make You Hate And Love Yourself At The Same Time, Make You Ashamed And Glorified.

... Suffering Does Not Ennoble. It Destroys. To Resist Destruction, Self-hatred, Or Lifelong Hopelessness, We Have To Throw Off The Conditioning Of Being Despised, The Fear Of Becoming The They That Is Talked About So Dismissively, To Refuse Lying Myths And Easy Moralities, To See Ourselves As Human, Flawed, And Extraordinary. All Of Us Extraordinary

Every Kid I Meet Who's A Reader Has Got Something Like That, Their Fantasy World. And Science Fiction Is The Best, Especially For Girls Because It's The One Place Where You Can Do The Forbidden.

I Put On The Page A Third Look At What I've Seen In Life - The Reinvented Experience Of A Cross-eyed Working-class Lesbian, Addicted To Violence, Language And Hope, Who Has Made The Decision To Live, Is Determined To Live, On The Page And On The Street, For Me And Mine.