Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

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

Modern morality is all about perception.

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.