Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.