Gloria Emerson

“I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.”

“I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.”

“The real victims of men are other men.”

“Korea taught me nothing, for no one spoke of it when I was growing up, except as something about how wonderful the girls in Japan were. Vietnam taught some of us more than we perhaps ever wished to know.”