Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
Whenever someone says the words ‘Our friendship is more important than this,’ watch out, because it almost never is.
The empty nest is underrated.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
You’re born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.
It’s much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won’t have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don’t mean to be too literal about this.
That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
I’ll have what she’s having.
People have only one way to be.
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter – albeit with less convenience.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.
Love is homesickness.
Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.
We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don’t quite believe it.