I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

Sometimes you have to walk away from what you want in order to find what you deserve.

I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment.

One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end.

The most reliable predictor of not being lonely is the amount of contact with women. Time spent with men doesn't make a difference.