Ideas Move Fast When Their

One Hires Lawyers As On Hires Plumbers, Because One Wants To Keep One's Hands Off The Beastly Drains.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.

We Women Have Lived Too Much With Closure: "if He Notices Me, If I Marry Him, If I Get Into College, If I Get This Work Accepted, If I Get This Job" -- There Always Seems To Loom The Possibility Of Something Being Over, Settled, Sweeping Clear The Way For Contentment. This Is The Delusion Of A Passive Life. When The Hope For Closure Is Abandoned, When There Is An End To Fantasy, Adventure For Women Will Begin.

As Long As Women Are Isolated One From The Other, Not Allowed To Offer Other Women The Most Personal Accounts Of Their Lives, They Will Not Be Part Of Any Narratives Of Their Own…women Will Be Staving Off Destiny And Not Inviting Or Inventing Or Controlling It.

Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty Gestures.