He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.
Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life. . . . Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.
Personal style is accepting who you are.
Silence, nothing is better.
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.