language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Hope turns the wheels of tomorrow's good fortune." From the Ace of Cups in Tarot D'Amour

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.

In the beginning, one soul split into two creating soul mates. And ever the two shall wander seeking each other. -Unknown

But time growing old teaches all things.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

In 1970, you went to school to find your husband.