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

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

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

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.