In The End, Long Life Is The

People Say, "why Do You Call Your Kids Up, Why Do You Worry Like That?" And I Say, "i Was Raised Like That." My Grandmother Looked At My Father With The Same Eyes When He Was Sixty And She Was Eighty-five.

Sometimes, Walking With A Friend, I Forget The World.

I Believe In A Kind Of Fidelity To Your Own Early Ideas; It's A Kind Of Antagonism In Me To Prevailing Fads.

If You're Feminist, It Means That You've Noticed That Male Ownership Of The Direction Of Female Lives Has Been The Order Of The Day For A Few Thousand Years, And It Isn't Natural.

I Do Lots Of Reading And Speaking At Many Universities About Literature And Also About Politics, Which Is As Much A Part Of My Life As The Literature.