I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.