The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.
We write about what we don't know about what we know.
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.