Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare