Never be so busy as not to think of others.
Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.
Whenever I have found that I have blundered, or that my work has been imperfected, and when I have been contemptuously criticised, and even when I have been overpraised, so that I have felt mortified, it has been my greatest comfort to say hundreds of times to myself that 'I have worked as hard as I could, and no man can do more than this. '
An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment. . . . Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.