I Didn't Want To Be A Boy,

To Live In A Harmonious Balance Of Commitments And Pleasures Is What I Strive For.

The Message Of Women's Liberation Is That Women Can Love Each Other And Ourselves Against Our Degrading Education.

Knowledge Is A Collective Enterprise. Without It Understanding Is Impossible. Ignorance Is Too Often A Murderous Vulnerability.

Morality For The Novelist Is Expressed Not So Much In The Choice Of Subject Matter As In The Plot Of The Narrative, Which Is Perhaps Why In Our Morally Bewildered Time Novelists Have Often Been Timid About Plot.

The Real Power Of Books Is Their Deep Companionability. We Learn From Them As We Learn From The Deep Companionability Of Love To Know Our Own Hearts And Minds Better.