I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.