When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
From Maya Angelou
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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