Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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.

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.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.