Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.

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.

There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you, and a part of me.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.