Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I'm astonished by my success.

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.