The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written but to challenge my writing this story at all speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman raised in some difficult...
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a...
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more...
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I...
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller...
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age who...
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...