You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

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.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

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

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.