My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.