There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

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”.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul

The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

If we girls aren't strong, we can't protect the boys we love.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.