It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.