The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

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.

If you want to do things, do things.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.