"To be a writer is to be a rebel. To be a woman writer is to be a double rebel."

"I have been trying to learn to use words, and every time I use them, they don't do what I want them to do."

"My mind is a muddle. I can't write a coherent sentence. I'm going to go eat a cookie."

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid."

"I am a feminist. I've been a feminist all my life. I think it's a perfectly normal thing to be."