Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.