I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.