I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

all success cloaks a surrender

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.