I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

When insulted by injustice, face it, stand up against it and demand your right and justice.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

The Righteous God.

Things are not as they appear.

Alimony: the cash surrender value of a husband.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.