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Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

Kate Braverman

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.

Kate Braverman

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

Kate Braverman

I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

Kate Braverman

Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman

Born: 1950

Died: October 12, 2019 (aged 69)

Bio: Kate Braverman was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She was raised in Los Angeles, which is the focus for much of her writing.

Known for:

Lithium for Medea (1979)
The Incantation of Frida K. (2002)
Palm latitudes (1988)
Small craft warnings (1998)

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