Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

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

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

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.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.