We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
Francine du Plessix GrayI think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.
Francine du Plessix GrayWhy are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
Francine du Plessix GrayFriendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.
Francine du Plessix Gray