True power is given to the vulnerable.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

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

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.