Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

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.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.