I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

You're never too old to grow up.

Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.

First things first, second things never.

You have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Pete's a good guy.""He just slept with my mother!""I didn't say he was perfect.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself!

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.