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

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" 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 neck starts to go at 43, and that's that. "

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

" I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs. "

" 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. "

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

" Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. "

" 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 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?' "

" 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. "

" My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. "

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

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

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" I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece. "

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

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" 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it. "

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