If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all..

You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think ….

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand..

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she ….

I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person….

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it ….

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors o….

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, th….

However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul o….

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot sh….

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough..

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that t….

God is a God of Lovingkindness..

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movem….

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note..

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so….

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter..

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or….

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet,….

I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in t….

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on..