Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.