Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

