The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.