There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

History works itself out in the living.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

Now I'm sixty-one... sixty-two, pretty soon. It's a really interesting age. Now we have women of your age, and coming up, and all these fantastic writers, who have managed to have their children but continue with their art, their work. I think women are doing the most interesting writing right now, the most interesting art. I see everything through this lens, of women finally taking their place in the world. Their true place. And it's very, very exciting to me.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?