“To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.”

“The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.”

“I know that sounds tough, but as I said, if you’re not tough inside, the world will always push you around anyway.”

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

“Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

“Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.”

“Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you”

“This kicking here inside
Makes me leave you behind.
No more under the quilt
To keep you warm.
Your sister I was born.
You must lose me like an arrow,
Shot into the killer storm.”

“I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills.
If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back.”