Write What Haunts You. What Keeps You

No, Women Like You Don't Write. They Carve Onion Sculptures And Potato Statues. They Sit In Dark Corners And Braid Their Hair In New Shapes And Twists In Order To Control The Stiffness, The Unruliness, The Rebelliousness.

If A Woman Is Worth Remembering,' Said My Grandmother, 'there Is No Need To Have Her Name Carved In Letters.

Creating These Messes That Go From Administration To Administration And Then You Swoop In And Clean Them Up - With That Heroic Delta Force - People Not Realizing That They Were Always There But Doing Different Things Than What We See Them Doing At The Moment.

I Hope To Be A Good Role Model For My Daughters.

I Think It's Hard To Write A Book About Happiness Because Fiction Requires Tension And Complication.