I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

He leans over and kisses me. And suddenly, my life splits in two: before and after.