My running was very simple; it was out of myself.
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.
I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it. " There is a certain injustice in that.
The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.
I bet dying vultures have lots of awkward moments with their friends. - Guy Endore
To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.