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We Also Have To Make Sure Our Children Know The History Of Women. Tell Them The Rotten Truth: It Wasn't Always Possible For Women To Become Doctors Or Managers Or Insurance People. Let Them Be Armed With A True Picture Of The Way We Want It To Be.

I Really Consider Myself A Writer, And A Writer Who Is Sometimes A Social Critic. I'm Not An Ideologue, I Don't Join A Party. I Follow Along And Take Notes. Sometimes I Throw In My Two Cents.

Everybody Is Bound By Some Social Rules. But I Think That Artists Need Some Kind Of Freedom To Explore Their Minds And That Some Of Them Tend To Take That Freedom To Live A Little More Openly Or A Little More Dangerously, Sometimes A Lot More Self-destructively, Than Other People.

My Mother Had Died When I Wrote My First Book. I Was Twenty-seven, So It Was Right At The Beginning Of My Writing Life. I Don't Know If She Had Lived, If I Would Have Done It, Certainly Not Quite Like I Did. But, You Can't Rethink It. You Wrote What You Wrote, It Meant Something To Other People, And That's Your Good.

You Need Your Freedom. You Need To Be Able To Do What You Want To Do As A Journalist, As A Person Who's Speaking For Other Women As You Speak For Yourself, And You Make A Choice. You Have To Be Tough Enough To Take The Consequences Of That Choice.