I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Home is where your books are.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.