In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old..

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're ….

I actually believe in denial..

people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's o….

The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing ….

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..

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away..

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.).

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore..

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we….

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s n….

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was….

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic..

I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that….

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one….

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it..

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it)..

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women..

It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's ….

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not st….

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love..