People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.