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

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

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.

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.

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