Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.
I think if you’re lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going to eat next at all times.
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
I’ve always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they’ve failed.
The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you’re lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.
You can’t call yourself a feminist if you don’t believe in the right to abortion.
To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn’t work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don’t mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren’t there and when they threw up.
I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.