[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

You know some minutes warn you they're going to be mighty short and you'd better take a snapshot of 'em while you can. ("Golden Baby")

If you are divided from your body you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

What stirs up in my heart is, 'Oh would we see an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.'

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

I could never regret you. Us

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.