Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Solitude is considered un-American.