Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

What is most personal is most universal.

A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.

The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.