Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

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

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.