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

Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?

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.

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

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

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

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