Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

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

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.

My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.

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

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.

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.