I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

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