The hardest thing of love is to let go.

People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.