At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.