“I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.”

“I'm Legs Sadovsky I'm FOXFIRE I don't fuck around with guys.”

“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

“I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.”

“HUSBAND: Is something wrong?BETHIE: Why--why do you ask?HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.”

“I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.”

“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”