My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

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

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 did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.

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.

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.

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.