The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.