Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

Writing is always harder than talking.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.