Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Share too much and someone can hurt you.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.