The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

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.

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.