Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

Never have more children than you have car windows.