If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

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

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.