Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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

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.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

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.

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

Better immersion than to live untouched.