Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Whether we like it or not, we need each other.

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It’s like distilling something.

Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it.

Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.

From breathing techniques, muscle toning to overall flexibility and relaxation, my Pilates sessions have become something of a weekly necessity that keeps me fit, happy and energized.