It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.