I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind.

Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!” Dee shrieked. “My eyes!

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

I think it's wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one's needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it's only one way.

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I've always been attracted to independent women, but the idea that someone could be independent and still kind of put herself second at times was pretty interesting.