Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

The past is a sorry country.