I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back..

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influenc….

There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in t….

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it..

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some ….

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference betwee….

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to you….

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped….

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity..

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liber….

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do ….

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse..

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge..

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and st….

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have com….

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them..

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undo….

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the ….

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose..

Modern morality is all about perception..