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.

- Gloria Emerson

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

- Gloria Emerson

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

- Gloria Emerson

The real victims of men are other men.

- Gloria Emerson