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.
I don’t know why so much nonsense about age is written – although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it’s our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.
I think you often have that sense when you write – that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you’re free of it. And you’re not, of course; you’ve just managed to set it down on paper, that’s all.
Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.
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.
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.