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.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

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.