Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

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.

I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.