She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.