I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

Time did not compose her.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.