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.

I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.