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.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

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

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

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

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

If you want to do things, do things.