Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

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.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

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

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

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.