I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.