LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.