I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.