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!

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

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.