There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.