I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.