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

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

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.

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

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.