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

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

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

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

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

Better immersion than to live untouched.

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

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

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

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

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.