I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.