Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

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

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.

In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.