I Divide My Time Between Columbia, Maryland,

Power Is The Ability Not Just To Tell The Story Of Another Person, But To Make It The Definitive Story Of That Person.

I’m Very Feminist In The Way I Look At The World, And That Worldview Must Somehow Be Part Of My Work.

I Can Write With Authority Only About What I Know Well, Which Means That I End Up Using Surface Details Of My Own Life In My Fiction.

She Could Not Complain About Not Having Shoes When The Person She Was Talking To Had No Legs.

You Americans, Always Peering Under People's Beds To Look For Communism.