AmericanNovelist and Critic, Her novels include Desert of the Heart (1964) and Lesbian Images (1975). b.1931 Popularity:
“People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.”
“Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.”
“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”
