Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Most books are bought by women.