"I was accepted at Barnard College and I was denied admission when I arrived because they had a quota of two.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Slowly and surely I started learning and eventually it got into my blood, and I just got devoted to it."

VOA: special.2009.08.19

And I tend to sit down and improvise. Within those improvisations certain motives and ideas will come about that I like."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

So I picked her up and I took her to the couch and I just started talking to her about what happened.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Call and I were right smart crabbers and we could always come home with a little money as well as crabs for dinner.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"No,I didn't. I was in my last year and then, I got pregnant and I got lazy."

VOA: special.2010.05.13

So the Bend went. And I was very happy that I had helped to make it go."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

"I mean,I travel all over the world and have dozens of people that I meet every month and I get business cards from them.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

It was open -- wide,wide open -- and I grew angry as I looked at it.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And I read more than I went outside and played and made my mom mad."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

During the summer of nineteen forty-one, every morning McCall Purnell and I would get my small boat and go out to catch shellfish called crabs.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"And then I turn around and I see this little puppy dog looking up at me, wagging her tail,and uh, everything just left.I got calm.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

But then if it's like during the summer and I'm really bored, I don't have anything else to do, then it might be a little longer."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

"My whole life,I'm like, I'm Mexican and I'm really -- I'm a proud Mexican-American and I swear I was an Aztec princess in my past life.

VOA: special.2010.09.13