Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I am afraid of those who are too simple on the outside

Never Take Life For Granted.

You don't have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.

In her hand was a necklace with a small oval pendant, a half of a locket engraved with one of the same symbols from the mirror frame—what Quinn saw as rolling waves. ~ "The Mirror

My sophomore year I placed 2nd, and my junior and senior year - I got smart and piled up enough points between myself and second place where I didn't have to run the mile.

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.