I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone who knows anything about publishing disagreeing with the statement that women writers today are often taken much less seriously than men writers. But it's hard to quantify, and even define, what being taken seriously means.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.