biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Every reading is a misreading.

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.

He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Human faces are such a world!

Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.