There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

I like any place that isn't here.

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.