A Person Without Curiosity May As Well

My Mother Never Talked About Sex. I Was On The Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] Show Once - This Is Years And Years And Years Ago - And It Was Her Mother's Day Show. And I Didn't Know What We Were Going To Talk About But What She Decided We Were Going To Talk About Was Female Masturbation. My Mother Had Invited All Her Girlfriends. And You Know These Were All Women In Their Late Seventy's Maybe They Were In Their Eighty's By Then And Then And They Were Horrified Because Dr Ruth Had A Little She Had A Little Chart Up You Know "female Masturbation".

Another Thing All Writers Have In Common Is We're All Observers. We Pay Attention To Detail.

I Didn't Know I Was Really A Writer Until I Read It In The New York Times. And Then I Thought, "oh My God, Maybe I Can Really Do This". That Was A Review Of "margaret."

I Kept A Diary As A Teenager But I Never Would Have Shared It With Anyone. Still, I Think It's Very Good Practice To Write Things Down.

I Am Certainly A Fearful Person, But Fearless In My Writing. So There's That Other Person Inside.