People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

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.

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.

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.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.