We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.