I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.