Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.