Morality For The Novelist Is Expressed Not

The Message Of Women's Liberation Is That Women Can Love Each Other And Ourselves Against Our Degrading Education.

If We Don't Bear Witness As Citizens, As People, As Individuals, The Right That We Have Had To Life Is Sacrificed. There Is A Silence, Instead Of A Speaking Presence.

Morality, Like Language, Is An Invented Structure For Conserving And Communicating Order. And Morality Is Learned, Like Language, By Mimicking And Remembering.

Coming Out, All The Way Out, Is Offered More And More As The Political Solution To Our Oppression. The Argument Goes That, If People Could See Just How Many Of Us There Are, Some In Very Important Places, The Negative Stereotype Would Vanish Overnight. ...it Is Far More Realistic To Suppose That, If The Tenth Of The Population That Is Gay Became Visible Tomorrow, The Panic Of The Majority Of People Would Inspire Repressive Legislation Of A Sort That Would Shock Even The Pessimists Among Us.

Writing Is Far Too Hard Work To Say What Someone Else Wants Me To. Serving It As A Craft, Using It As A Way Of Growing In My Own Understanding, Seems To Me To Be A Beautiful Way To Live. And If That Product Is Shareable With Other People, So Much The Better.