Her genius as a writer is her ability to recapture the texture of the way of life in the texture of its idioms, its idiosyncractic vocabulary, and especially in its process of image-making. I felt that this woman could have read the side of a cereal box. What I would really like said about me is that I dared to love. For years I thought of my whole body as an ear. To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.