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

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" There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. "

" In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. "

" When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. "

" What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. "

" Literature is analysis after the event. "

" If you are a young writer today, it's very hard. "

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. "

" You know, 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. "

" I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. "

" Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. "

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" My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. "

" 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. "

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

" Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. "

" Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. "

" Pearls mean tears. "

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

" It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. "

" A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. "

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

" All my friends' mothers were appalling women. "

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

" I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. "

" I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education. "

" Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. "

" It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. "

" Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! "

" I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. "

" I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. "