It's ridiculous for a woman to say that she's not attracted to other women. That's completely false.
Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best. . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.
I also ache at that thought your majesty. . . But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.
Why did everyone think I needed a new boyfriend? I didn't need a new boyfriend. I'd had enough of boyfriends to last a lifetime. The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.