Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.