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.

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

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

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.

I love the smell of a mans skin.