. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance."

. . . that is the best -- to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong -- to belong to my mother. And in return -- I wanted my mother to belong to me."

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.