The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.

It's a funny old world.

I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.