Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

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.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

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

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.