Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.