I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.