When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.