To Live In A Harmonious Balance Of

I Remember How Surprised I Was When My First Novel Was About To Be Published And I Was Informed That I Could Be Sued For Anything Any One Of My Characters Said. 'but I Often Don't Agree With What They Say,' I Protested. The Lawyer Was Not Interested In The Clear Distinction I Make Between My Own Voice And The Voices Of My Characters. Neither, I Have Found, Are Many Of My Readers.

Now That Our Sexual Experience Is Increasingly Available To Us As A Subject For Contemplation, We Have To Extend Our Language To Express Our New Consciousness Until We Have As Many Words For Sexuality As The Eskimo Has For Snow, That Pervasive, Beautiful, And Mortal Climate In Which We All Live.

Morality For The Novelist Is Expressed Not So Much In The Choice Of Subject Matter As In The Plot Of The Narrative, Which Is Perhaps Why In Our Morally Bewildered Time Novelists Have Often Been Timid About Plot.

I've Never Been Resigned To Ready-made Ideas As I Was To Ready-made Clothes, Perhaps Because Although I Couldn't Sew, I Could Think.

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