Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.