“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." ” 

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” 

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.” 

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” 

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little—if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. 

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”

“Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.” 

“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.” 

“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.”

“The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.” 

“All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”