We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

Writing is always harder than talking.

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

Most books are bought by women.

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

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.