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

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" 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. "

" Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34. "

" If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. "

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

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

" I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60. "

" The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does. "

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

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

" What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. "

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

" Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking. "

" When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress. "

" I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food. "

" You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. "

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" 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. "

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" Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them. "