We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.

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.