Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty

As Long As Women Are Isolated One From The Other, Not Allowed To Offer Other Women The Most Personal Accounts Of Their Lives, They Will Not Be Part Of Any Narratives Of Their Own…women Will Be Staving Off Destiny And Not Inviting Or Inventing Or Controlling It.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.

Today's Shocks Are Tomorrow's Conventions.

Normal Is Absolutely My Least Favorite Word.

Nostalgia Is A Dangerous Emotion, Both Because It Is Powerless To Act In The Real World, And Because It Glides So Easily Into Hatred And Resentment Against Those Who Have Taken Our Eden From Us.