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

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 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.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

An idea without action is like a song without vocal.

Patience is born when we create a pause between our experience of a feeling and our response to that feeling.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.

It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.