Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

When farming became a corporate venture, and the distribution of food became corporate, the variety of foods that were considered good diminished greatly. I know that there's a lot of misconception about this, that people think we have more food variety than ever before, but, in fact, if you read any of the studies, you'll find we have fewer foods than before.

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.