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.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Home is where your books are.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.