What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.