The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.