The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.