Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1937
What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age..
Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not fr….
Freedom is much more complicated than servitude..
[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time try….
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're….
I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter..
Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine..
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends..
Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places..