Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Cooking can be like foreplay.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.