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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're...
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will...
Even in life [Sinclair Lewis] was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to...
The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new....
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perserverence. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't...
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the...
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little...
. . . every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend...
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your...
Gardening is not a rational act.
Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
-- Margaret...
Humans must breathe, but corporations must make money.
Source: Media Images 1:...
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked . . . not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We...
Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing, sees...
My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the...
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to...
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true...
. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed...