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.

Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.

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.

Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.