Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

At the end of the day, if you're old enough, you're good enough.

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.