not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.