I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

I generally don't enjoy relaxing and doing nothing on holiday.

Always examine the dice.

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.