You're afraid of criticism, ' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism.

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a deeper animosity we owe it to ourselves to ex

...filled her memory bank with shiny coins.

...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and growing up.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier.

Eight or nine out of ten mothers in our society today believe that they have accomplished their duty if their daughters, once married, are not sent home in divorce. -Daughters in Boxes

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

I always ignore money.

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

I'll talk about my Tony all day long.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.