Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Home is where your books are.