Modern morality is all about perception.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.