Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?