If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of ….

I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of thi….

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe..

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figurin….

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience..

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader ti….

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a….

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families..

Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed….

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings..

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditiona….

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are ju….

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political r….

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time..

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men..

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman..

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out..

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt..

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become….

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have ma….