As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

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

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.