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

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

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.