I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.