For there is never any way to go but in.
What matters most is that we learn from living.
A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.