At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.