I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.