The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.

I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'