It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.