We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

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

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?