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

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

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.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?