Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star