Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

I think I'll move to Australia.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.