No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

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

Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.