Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when youre hurt, youre really on your own. Youre alone, and theres no one to help you. – Octavia Butler
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. – Octavia Butler
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. – Octavia Butler
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that were not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. – Patricia Ireland