If you want to do things, do things.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.