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.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.