Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.

Eating sundaes is something you can't do every night.

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.