Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

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.

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

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.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.