Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.