I am 46, and have been for some time past.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.