I Would Hate For People To Generalize

No, Women Like You Don't Write. They Carve Onion Sculptures And Potato Statues. They Sit In Dark Corners And Braid Their Hair In New Shapes And Twists In Order To Control The Stiffness, The Unruliness, The Rebelliousness.

Sometimes Family Members Will Ask To Be Kept Out Of Certain Things That I'm Writing, And I Try To Respect That. I'd Much Rather Have Relatives Than A Book.

On Some Levels, You Can Also Have This Feeling That We Are Being Duped, Somehow. And That The World Is At Play For Something You Would Understand More If It Were Pure Ideology. It Is A Very Strange Time And Also Basic Things Are Being Taken Away.

I Am Very Timid About Speaking For The Collective. I Can Say What I See, I Can Say What I've Heard, I Can Say What I Feel, But I Can't Speak For - No One Can Speak For - 10 Million People, And It Takes Away Something From Them If You Make Yourself Their Voice.

Or Even The State Of Florida, Where They Are Prepared To Execute Children. Umm, Well, You Hope That At Least That There Is Something There To Be Claimed.