The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.
You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.
surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!
Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.