I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.