Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing..

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of..

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder..

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me..