The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.