Sometimes for me not throwing a tantrum is what running a marathon or swimming the English Channel must be like for others of a less-challenging emotional nature.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Hope is not a financial plan.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.