Before I Had Children I Always Wondered

Growing Up In The Fifties And Sixties, I Can Only Remember Knowing One Child, Ever, Whose Parents Got A Divorce, And Hardly Any Whose Mother "worked" At Anything Besides Raising Her Children.

I Think Of Myself As A Realistic Writer, Not A Creator Of Soap Opera Or Melodrama.

[on Home Births:] In A House Where There Had Been Three People, There Were Now Four, Although No One Had Come In The Door.

I Do Not Outline. There Are Writers I Know And Count As My Friends Who Certainly Do It The Other Way But For Me Part Of The Adventure Is Not Knowing How It's Going To Turn Out.

Many Women My Age Have Known The Experience Of Giving Up Crucial Parts Of Themselves To Please The Man They Love.