Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!