To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much.
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think. . . of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.