I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Art is too long, and life is too short.
We write about what we don't know about what we know.
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a lot. People didn't really tell stories but they were good talkers. That's important for a writer, to hear speakers.
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.