A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.