Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Life ain't the movies.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

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.