The Sound Of Words In A Novel

I Think A Woman Is Powerless If She Cannot Freely Claim The Right To Her Reproductive Capacity. Society Can Talk About Anything It Likes, Except A Woman's Reproductive Existence.

That Is How I Came To Think That Heavy And Hard Was The Beginning Of Living, Real Living; And Though I Might Not End Up With A Mark On My Cheek, I Had No Doubt That I Would End Up With A Mark Somewhere.

When I Write A Book, I Hope To Be Beyond Mortal By The Time I'm Finished.

At The Time I Was Taught To Read, It Was An Eden-like Time Of My Life. My Mother Adored Me. Everyone Adored Me. So I Associate Reading With Enormous Pleasure.

I Was Given A Dictionary When I Was Seven, And I Read It Because I Had Nothing Else To Read. I Read It The Way You Read A Book.