Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.