I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.