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.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

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

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.