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.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

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.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

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