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People have only one way to be.

We’d grown up in an era when no one was divorced, and suddenly everyone was divorced.

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

I have been forgetting things for years – at least since I was in my thirties. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time. I have proof. Of course, I can’t remember exactly where I wrote about it, or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

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.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

I don’t write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone – the whole point of view. I know exactly where I’m going as soon as I have the lead.

Let’s face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life’s unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.

You don’t really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you’re writing it. You don’t bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.

You know, everything adds up. It’s what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

The internet is the superhighway of grammatically incorrect moral outrage. EPHRON:.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

It’s always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

My religion is Get Over It.

I loved to cook, so I cooked. And then the cooking became a way of saying I love you. And then the cooking became the easy way of saying I love you. And then the cooking became the only way of saying I love you.

I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be – feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.

This year things are different. This year my husband is a stranger. Do not let this stranger see me eviscerated.

That’s another thing about being a certain age that I’ve noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ’cause I get to be funny about it.

Craig was a nice guy, don’t get me wrong, but he was so low-key that once I’d gotten to know him, I was almost completely unable to have even imaginary conversations with him while cooking his recipes. Around.

Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it’s entirely possible you will have another failure.

But when you’ve had children with someone you’re divorced from, divorce defines everything; it’s the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

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.

Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it’s your last, or do you save your money on the chance you’ll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses?

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren’t as interesting as the things they cover.

One good thing I’d like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger; it’s not directed at the person you’re currently with.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Here’s the thing about dessert – you want it to last. You want to savor it.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there’s no confusion about who’s to blame: You are.

I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

I’ll tell you how sensible Arthur is: he doesn’t even mind being bald.

A really great omelette has two whole eggs and one extra yolk, and by the way, the same thing goes for scrambled eggs. As for egg salad, here’s our recipe: boil eighteen eggs, peel them, and send six of the egg whites to friends in California who persist in thinking that egg whites matter in any way. Chop the remaining twelve eggs and six yolks coarsely with a knife, and add Hellmann’s mayonnaise and salt and pepper to taste.

I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you’ve found out he’s cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you’ve degraded yourself so completely that there’s nothing left to do but walk out.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn’t know how to do it.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we’ve all read pieces where we thought, ‘Oh, who gives a damn.’

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I realized something else no one tells you: that a child is a grenade. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.

Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

If you’re looking for monogamy, you’d better marry a swan.

You’re born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn’t it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.

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.

You can’t call yourself a feminist if you don’t believe in the right to abortion.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don’t know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

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