I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant.

We're all traitors now.” “Ha!” the old lady said. “Only if we lose.

fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.

[Donald Trump] tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers.

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.