I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.