. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it
was a good, even joyous, political idea to put its brains, energy,
labor at the service of the people.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.