My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.

Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.