There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.