You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

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.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.