In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

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

Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.