In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

A beautiful person is a person who can see the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.