What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

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.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

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

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.