Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
Tell the story that’s been growing in your heart, the characters you can’t keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It’s worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It’s the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
mooo,” she said… “I mean mmmm,” she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.
If there had been an exercise I’d liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?
When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.
Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else’s.
Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
I don’t answer. I shut my eyes and hold my breath and hope whoever it is will think I’m not here and go home.
Your friends will still be your friends, if they’re good friends.
I’m saying that it’s a big decision. Your first love is important. It’s part of your story The story you’ll tell yourself, the one you’ll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.
It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.
Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you’re a poor woman and you are infertile, it’s like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.