I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.