You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.