People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.