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

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.