There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

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.

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

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.

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you expect that the love will fade over time, as life gets harder. When what you should do is find yourself a nice enough fellow and let real love develop over years and births and deaths and so on.

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.