Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.