Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

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

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Art is too long, and life is too short.