Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

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.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Why does life need evidence of life?

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.