Without a child I could dance across the sexism of my era, whereas becoming a mother shoved my face right down into it. - Miranda July

People are always breaking through, like in the Doors song 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)'. But I really had. I had broken through twice now, and my feeling about the universe was that it was porous and radical and you could turn it on, you could even fuck around with the universe.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.