Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Helping begins with listening.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

I believe that art has incredible power.