Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I'll have what she's having

I actually believe in denial.

The empty nest is underrated.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

People have only one way to be.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Everything matches black, especially black.

The neck starts to go at 43, and that's that.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

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