I'm A Novelist, Not A Social Scientist

I'm Waiting For The Day When My Children Cease To Find My Domestic Propriety Reassuring And Actually Find It Annoying.

It Is Living, Not Thinking, As A Feminist That Has Become The Challenge.

I Have No Sense Of A Model Or Predecessor When I Write A Memoir: For Me, The Form Exists As A Method Of Processing Material That Retains Too Many Connections To Life To Be Approached Strictly And Aesthetically. A Memoir Is A Risk, A One-off, A Bastard Child.

I Suppose, I Said, It Is One Definition Of Love, The Belief In Something That Only The Two Of You Can See.

I Remain Fascinated By Where You Go As A Woman Once You Are A Mother, And If You Ever Come Back.