I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

My hatred is diamond-hard.