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.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

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.