My Mother Is So Full Of Joy

Information Helps You To See That You're Not Alone. That There's Somebody In Mississippi And Somebody In Tokyo Who Have Wept, Who've All Longed And Lost, Who've All Been Happy. So The Library Helps You To See, Not Only That You Are Not Alone, But That You're Not Really Any Different From Everyone Else.

One Of The Problems We Have As Writers Is We Don't Take Ourselves Seriously While Writing; Being Serious Is Setting Aside A Time And Saying If It Comes, Good; If It Doesn't Come, Good, I'll Just Sit Here.

I Am Grateful To Be A Woman. I Must Have Done Something Great In Another Life.

Elimination Of Illiteracy Is As Serious An Issue To Our History As The Abolition Of Slavery.

I've Learned That Making A 'living' Is Not The Same Thing As 'making A Life'.