Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.