Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

Men generally do not see women as competition.