I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

The powerful don't make revolutions