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 can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

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.