I believe only in art and failure.
From Jane Rule
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
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