People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.