Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

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

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.

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.

Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.