O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.