Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.