The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

what was there when nothing began, what will be there when everything ends?

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it find a hurt and heal it find a problem and solve it.

I felt his eyes devour me as I moved around the room. He assessed me head to toe without blinking, and a hot ache shivered through me. A kiss would've been less intimate.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

Life is great when your in shape!

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?

Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.