One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

I will be a good wife, " she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.

You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Amazing," Edward muttered. "How can someone so tiny be so annoying?" Alice laughed. "It's a talent.

Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.