Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.