Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.