I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.