I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now..

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character..

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades..

Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so….

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used..

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible.

Better immersion than to live untouched..

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is le….

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates..

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked..

Not to have an audience is a kind of death..

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil..

There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt..

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused t….

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched..

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?.

Every woman who writes is a survivor..

Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of ….

The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible fo….

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks..

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly r….