When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.

For there is never any way to go but in.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.