Law and justice are not always the same.

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

I don't like writing. I like having written.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

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

A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.