We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.