I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

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.

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.

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.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

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.

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