[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
If you stay true to one thing, it will open up the doors to the other thing. But, you don't have to tell the people, "Oh, I can do these fifteen things. " No! Just tell them you can do the one, and if you do the one well, other opportunities will be afforded you, period.
Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.