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.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.