We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.