I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.