If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.