We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.