Jean Rhys

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.