What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. "Never leave me," it says; "do not abandon me."

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

What we have in common is what keeps us apart.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Gem, there is an exception to every rule and we are going to be it. I'm not losing you.

It's hard to answer the question "what's wrong?" when nothing is right.

Frowning I playfully blow a fresh handful of bubbles at him as we walks back out, laughing over his shoulder at me.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around the house pretending I was somewhere else.

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

I wish I could have built without destroying things.