There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

People have only one way to be.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.