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.

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

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

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.

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.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.