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" I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. "

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

" I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. "

" 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 just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me. "

" The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't. "

" I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows. "

" I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. 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. "

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

" Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: 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 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? "

" The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs. "

" I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. "

" Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. "

" At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. "

" Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful. "

" I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?' "

" When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up. "

" Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job. "

" I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. "

" Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. "

" Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. "

" Everything matches black, especially black. "

" In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. "

" Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. "

" I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French. "

" My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. "

" I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. 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 have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. 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. "

" The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back. "

" I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. "

" The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. "