Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.