If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.