The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every hum….

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others..

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be..

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones..

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

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

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

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

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

Every woman who writes is a survivor..

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

Better immersion than to live untouched..

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