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

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

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

If you want to do things, do things.

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

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.