I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.