Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

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.

She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.

Never despair if you have to start at the bottom

Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you.

Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!

You should watch what you say to people.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.