As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

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

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 didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

A joke is necessary at this time.