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

How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and comp….

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

Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so et….

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….

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

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..

We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not wha….

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….

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….

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..

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

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

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

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

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take….

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 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….

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what tha….