Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant<br>Success in Circuit lies.
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.
I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slantSuccess in Circuit lies.
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The worst is over without a doubt.
I played my age. Not bad.
Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.