Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.