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

I have a terrible memory.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.