It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

I don't like writing. I like having written.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.