Courage is the only Magic worth having.

The soul is awakened through service.

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

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.

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.