Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

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.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.