I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

A narcissism shared by two.

Divorce: fission after fusion.