I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.