Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
It's fun to give pleasure to people.
One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.
We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.