I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.