Hope is a most beautiful drug.
You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.
We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.
To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who know absolutely that others exist and therefore feels d...
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
I am always on the women's side.
Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
