A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
I'm bad at picking heroes.
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.
Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.