More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.