The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.

For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But for me, I don't think I could write a plot without sex happening somewhere.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."