Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.