There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.