We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of..

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as ….

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it ….

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

Modern morality is all about perception..

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

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

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 '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 ….

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..

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

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