That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.