If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

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.

Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it’s impossible to persevere.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state that makes you try to convince your heart of something your mind knows is a lie!

It’s also important to realize that healing is something we receive and keep by faith.

When you smile from within good things come to you from without. Just breathe, your music will come.

Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.

I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous.

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

The bond market is debating with itself what the intent of the Fed is. I don't think the Fed has a multi-step process. They are taking it step by step.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.