The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale..

Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has ten….

More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations:….

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power..

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live..

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determ….

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias..

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with..

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth..

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two..

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely..