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

Literature is analysis after the event.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

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.