Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.

I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

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.

The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?