"I am a man. Now you may think I’ve made some kind of silly mistake about gender, or maybe that I’m trying to fool you, because my first name ends in 'a,' and I own three bras and a pair of high-heeled…"

"I'm not a very good housekeeper. My house is always a mess."

"If you don’t like my ideas, please don’t read my books."

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

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."