Certainly there will always be stories.

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate way, was the opposite. So I had to un-think a lot of things and move out of my own head, and I learned a lot. It was like graduate school, but an un-graduate school or an un-school.

When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for millennia, women couldn't do. Biology was, in many ways, destiny. We wouldn't be talking about gender if women could not control their pregnancies.

My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

I think the major device for me is that narrator's voice. I'm always trying to find a different kind of form to tell whatever story it is, and I wish that weren't so, because it drives me crazy.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.