Romanticizing The Act Of Writing Or Any

You Have To Have A Certain Kind Of Thickening Of The Hide. I Mean, I'm Not Particularly Worried About What Other People Think. If Other People Think That I Was Not The World's Most Perfect Mother, They Are Completely Right.

I've Told The Same Story Twelve Different Ways, But I Think That's Just Part Of What Writers Do. Once May Not Be Enough.

I Know That Family Life In America Is A Minefield, An Economic Trap For Women, A Study In Disappointment For Both Sexes.

Most Of Us Don't Have Mothers Who Blazed A Trail For Us--at Least, Not All The Way. Coming Of Age Before Or During The Inception Of The Women's Movement, Whether As Working Parents Or Homemakers, Whether Married Or Divorced, Our Mothers Faced Conundrums--what Should They Be? How Should They Act?--that Became Our Uncertainties.

Everybody Is Bound By Some Social Rules. But I Think That Artists Need Some Kind Of Freedom To Explore Their Minds And That Some Of Them Tend To Take That Freedom To Live A Little More Openly Or A Little More Dangerously, Sometimes A Lot More Self-destructively, Than Other People.