In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

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