Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.