I Think I Was A Feminist Before

All Stories Interest Me, And Some Haunt Me Until I End Up Writing Them.

Sometimes Journalists Ask Me, "what's The Message?" There Is No Message. I Think That Fiction Should Not Be Trying To Give Messages. Just Tell A Story.

I Have A Hundred-year-old Aunt Who Aspires To Sainthood, And Whose Only Wish Has Been To Go Into The Convent, But No Congregation, Not Even The Little Sisters Of Charity, Could Tolerate Her For More Than A Few Weeks, So The Family Has Had To Look After Her. Believe Me, There Is Nothing So Insufferable As A Saint, I Wouldn't Sic One On My Worst Enemy.

A Man Does What He Can; A Woman Does What A Man Cannot.

Fear Is Inevitable, I Have To Accept That, But I Cannot Allow It To Paralyze Me.