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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.