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

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

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

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.

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

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

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.