I have a terrible memory.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

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

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

I have a terrible memory.

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