If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?