My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Women are strangers in the country of man.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves.

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.