It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
I'm really not used to people paying attention to my writing.
I don't always like walking down the street and making sure that I smile and say hello to everybody who's walking their dog in the opposite direction. But I do do it. And it's a small, tiny thing to do. But to me, it means 'I see you. You're not invisible to me.'
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Thank God for the gays. I don't know what would have happened but I know what did happen. Good for them and good for me.
New York is a walking city, so you'll be dressed to the nines, and you'll go out, and you feel more special and more pretty because more people acknowledge you.
My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.
When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who are described by the census as living in 'non-family households.' They resent the fact that their family responsibilities literally don't 'count,' either for society or for their employers.
