We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.

you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.