I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

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

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.