The empty nest is underrated.

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.

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

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

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!