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

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.