You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.