For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.