Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. - Anna Quindlen

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.