The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

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.

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.

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

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

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

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