These Days Most Women Have

Summer Bachelors, Like Summer Breezes, Are Never As Cool As They Pretend To Be.

Maybe Young Women Don't Wonder Whether They Can Have It All Any Longer, But In Case Any Of You Are Wondering, Of Course You Can Have It All. It Will Be A Little Messy, But Embrace The Mess. It Will Be Complicated, But Rejoice In The Complications. It Will Not Be Anything Like What You Think It Will Be Like, But Surprises Are Good For You. And Don't Be Frightened: You Can Always Change Your Mind. I Know: I've Had Four Careers And Three Husbands.

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 Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.

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.

You Can't Meet Someone Until You Become What You're Becoming.