Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.