Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

You don’t want emotional walls to separate you from your spouse

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.

We are figments of the same imagination… We are one

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.