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. Not better, ….

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity.….

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of pap….

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it..

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much..

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?.

You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered ….

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

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy..

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small po….

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat..

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journa….

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimac….

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says agin….

Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is d….

What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall i….

Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your….

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from..

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; Peo….

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doome….

Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone e….