I'm very excited about Kitchen Table. I think it's an important manifestation of what has to happen. We need to build our own institutions.
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
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There are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves -- along with the renewed courage to try them out.
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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
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