Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.