Solitude is considered un-American.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.