Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Every reading is a misreading.

Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

Don't stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you've been. Start local anyway!

Doubt is a lot like faith

People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

Data is your eyes, not your brain.

I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

Do not tell me your values​​. Just give me pocket money, I would say how much you are worth