When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of writers, or anyone else who tries to make art out of life. Through science they had reached the expressive.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.