It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

You're like a cake when you're young. You can't rush it or it will fall, or just turn out wrong. Rising takes patience, and heat.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.