Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

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.

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.