Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.Collection: Team
Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.Collection: Survival
Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."Collection: Sister
What we have in common is what keeps us apart.Collection: Common
What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.Collection: People
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.Collection: Mother
I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.Collection: Hurt
we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.Collection: Silence
What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.Collection: Choices
The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.Collection: Men
The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.Collection: Loneliness
for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.Collection: Loneliness
Humor tells you where the trouble is.Collection: Trouble
Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.Collection: Children