“I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.”
“Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.”
“You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.”
“People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.”
