When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.