It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

If it can bleed, we can kill it.

You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.