I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.