I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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.

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.