"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."

"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected."

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"

"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."

"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."

"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."

"When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll."