Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.