"My novels are usually ignited by a question–a philosophical, spiritual, moral, political quandary. My stories are usu…"

"History shows that often artists first envision the change feminist activists seek to bring about."

"I’ve always regarded writing as a vocation more than a career. Vocation as in “calling,” as in “being summoned,” from…"

"I still want to change the world, and if my political principles have remained steady, the belief in my own powers ha…"

"As a feminist, I want to involve readers in the story and give them time to pause, reflect, argue, and engage."

"I don’t like the term “political correctness” because conservatives tend to employ it to distract from serious racial…"

"Literature is the story of our many and diverse lives—in fiction, poetry, drama, and so forth. Unfortunately, women’s…"

"the literature that we read in the late sixties--I graduated from university in 1969--was really British literature b…"

"One of the reasons I became a writer was to try to develop some kind of empathy for my fellow human beings. If I'm al…"

"I'm very much an Irish Republican, in the sense that I believe that the troops should be out of the north and that th…"