It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

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

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.