"There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?"

“I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.”

“The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.”

Source : "The Show-Woman". www.newyorker.com. October 30, 2006.

“Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.”

“This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.”

“You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.”

“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”

Source : Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

“So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.”