The most she dared to wish for now was to live long enough to become a woman. (p46) - Alice Hoffman

I've often wondered if I spent too much time inside of books. If perhaps I ended up getting lost in there. I feared that reading, and later writing, stopped me from living a full life in the real world. I still don't know the answer to this, but I'm not sure I would have gotten past being twelve without Ray Bradbury, and I know that imagining the plot for my novel The River King during a lengthy bone scan helped me get through that test. (p 35)

I think that I always wanted to tell the stories of women who were not able to tell their own stories.

Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.