As Far As The Men Who Are

In The Way That Women Forget The Pain Of Childbirth, Men Forget That They Cry In Movies.

The Image Of The Journalist As Wallflower At The Orgy Has Been Replaced By The Journalist As The Life Of The Party.

It's Always A Shock To The People Who Run Studios When A Movie That Is For Women Is A Hit. They Have An Infinite Capacity To Be Shocked.

The Function Of A Blog Is On Some Level To Start A Conversation That You're Not Involved In Any More Because You've Already Had Your Say. That Thing Of Coming Right Off The News - Did You See What I Saw This Morning, Can You Believe It? - Has A Kind Of Fun Appeal.

We Have A Game We Play When We’re Waiting For Tables In Restaurants, Where You Have To Write The Five Things That Describe Yourself On A Piece Of Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.