Upon Becoming Fifty The One Thing You

You Can Flush My Ashes Down The Toilet, For All I Care.

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.

Power Is The Ability To Take One's Place In Whatever Discourse Is Essential To Action And The Right To Have One's Part Matter.

We Cannot Guess The Outcome Of Our Actions... Which Is Why Our Actions Must Always Be Acceptable In Themselves, And Not As Strategies.

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