If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

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

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.