"Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction."

The best innovations are often the simplest solutions to the most persistent problems.

To write is to leave a mark, to say: I was here, I existed.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

At twenty-one, I was a divorced single mother. At thirty, I was struggling to feed my children. At forty, I was starting over in a new country. At fifty, I was rebuilding my career. At sixty, I walked the runway at Fashion Week. Life begins at every age—if you dare to make a plan.