Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

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.