People Have Only One Way To Be.

I Cannot Understand Any Woman's Wanting To Be The First Woman To Do Anything. ... It Is A Devastating Burden And I Could Not Take It, Could Not Be A Pioneer, A Symbol Of Something Greater.

These Days Most Women Have Jobs That Last Way Too Long. A Lot Of People In New York Barely Have Time To Get Laid.

We All Look Good For Our Age. Except For Our Necks.

Plastic Surgery Is A Way For People To Buy Themselves A Few Years Before They Have To Truly Confront What Ageing Is, Which Of Course Is Not That Your Looks Are Falling Apart, But That You Are Falling Apart And Some-day You Will Have Fallen Apart And Ceased To Exist.

We Have A Game We Play When We’re Waiting For Tables In Restaurants, Where You Have To Write The Five Things That Describe Yourself On A Piece Of Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.