Speech is the voice of the heart.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth.