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" Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? "

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" I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. "

" I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly. "

" You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" I remember everything but forgive anyway. "

" Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "

" My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. "

" I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "

" And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

" Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. "

" Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. "

" It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork. "

" Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change. "

" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "

" When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. "

" We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. "

" I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am. "

" When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "

" Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. "

" People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. "

" Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art. "

" Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. "

" I've never been able to control my public image. "

" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else. "

" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "

" I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "

" Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. "