Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.