I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.