If you want to do things, do things.
From Grace Paley
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.
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