I can't write what I don't believe in.

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.