We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.

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.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.