Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer -- and the trouble is: you believe it.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean -- then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

What we fear we also desire, and what we desire we fear.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

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