Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

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.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.