You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.

I publish six books a year now, which is very exciting. But it keeps me into my typewriter at all times! Now that my children have grown up, I'm with my typewriter 20 hours a day.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.