Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

Love is our human miracle.