I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.