Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.