I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

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

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

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