That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.