Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.

I love making lists.