I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and….

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

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

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

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives ….

My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived….

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

I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other mo….

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for you….

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a….

They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in t….

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

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening ….

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

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..

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

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so….

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she ….

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, th….

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movem….

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