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Every So Often I Would Look At My Women Friends Who Were Happily Married And Didn't Cook, And I Would Always Find Myself Wondering How They Did It. Would Anyone Love Me If I Couldn't Cook? I Always Thought Cooking Was Part Of The Package: Step Right Up, It's Rachel Samstat, She's Bright, She's Funny And She Can Cook!

Sometimes I Wonder About My Life. I Lead A Small Life - Well, Valuable, But Small - And Sometimes I Wonder, Do I Do It Because I Like It, Or Because I Haven't Been Brave? So Much Of What I See Reminds Me Of Something I Read In A Book, When Shouldn't It Be The Other Way Around? I Don't Really Want An Answer. I Just Want To Send This Cosmic Question Out Into The Void. So Good Night, Dear Void. - You've Got Mail

When You're Attracted To Someone, It Just Means That Your Subconscious Is Attracted To Their Subconscious, Subconsciously. So What We Think Of As Fate Is Just Two Neuroses Knowing That They Are A Perfect Match. - Sleepless In Seattle

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.

Consciousness-raising Is At The Very Least Supposed To Bring About An Intimacy, But What It Seems Instead To Bring About Are The Trappings Of Intimacy, The Illusion Of Intimacy, A Semblance Of Intimacy.