There are many feminists who work in the media, and they think that feminism is very important. It is in their own lives, but mostly feminism has had an impact among privileged women in the advanced Western countries. For the most part, it hasn't begun to touch the lives of poor and working women in the Third World, and that distresses me.

We are all creatures of the stars.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.