Childhood, After All, Is Not

Childhood, After All, Is Not An Ending, But Rather A State Full Of Potent Curiosity.

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

What I Increasingly Felt, In Marriage And In Motherhood, Was That To Live As A Woman And To Live As A Feminist Were Two Different And Possibly Irreconcilable Things.

For Me, A Novel Is Always The Result Of My Attempt To Impose Myself On Raw Circumstances. It Is A Concrete Form Of Lived Experience.

To Become A Mother Is To Learn A Whole Language - To Relearn It, Perhaps, As It Was The Tongue To Which We Were Born - And Hence Gain Entrance To A Forgotten World Of Comprehension.