Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
“Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family.”
Kamala Suraiyya Das (Wages of Love)
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“I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.”
Declining to be interviewed for a magazine article, quoted in "Armstrong's Code" by Kathy Sawyer in Washington Post Magazine (11 July 1999) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/space/armstrong1.htm

“I am no more humble than my talents require.”
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”