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.'
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
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.
