I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.