Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

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.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

I am not meant to be a biomass, I am a human being and I am born with a mission

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.