It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

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