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

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

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.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.