Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.