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

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.

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 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.

I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

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