I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.
The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.