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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.