I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

One writes not by will but by surrender.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.