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" I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. "

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" I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess. "

" The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. "

" Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. "

" Small things amuse small minds. "

" There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. "

" The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. "

" Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. "

" They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. "

" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "

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" Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. "

" I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. "

" I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame. "

" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "

" Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. "

" You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. "

" It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. "

" When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. "

" It's very interesting what you don't care about. "

" I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it. "

" A story is how we construct our experiences. "

" That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. "

" When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. "

" There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. "

" When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work. "

" God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. "

" I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married. "

" My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. "

" I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. "