"The creative process is a mystery. I don't know where my ideas come from."

"I have been trying to learn to use words, and every time I use them, they don't do what I want them to do."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

"I am a man, no doubt. But I am also a woman. I am a white woman. I am a white woman who lives in a white society. I am a white woman who is a feminist. I am a white woman who is a mother. I am a white…"