Write from what you know into what you don't know.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

We write about what we don't know about what we know....

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

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.