To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.