What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.

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

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.