Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.