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.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

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