I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

Nothing is more stylish than power.

Survival must come before civilization.

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.