A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).