I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.