People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.