If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Keeping a journal implies hope.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.