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Mostly I just wish I'd read this book when I, too, was a baby dyke émigré to SF from the East Coast

'If I could be said to have had a faith in those days, it was anxiety--the faith in the uncertainty and darkness of the future.'

"[G]ood stories are the imagination's firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable. I can only speak from my own experience, of course, but for me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of stark raving reality as an adult."