What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

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.

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.

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

The key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit

Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.

One can transform a place by reading in it.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.