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.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

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