From The Essay "twenty-five Things People Have

We All Look Good For Our Age. Except For Our Necks.

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.

The Washington Press Corps Thinks That Julie Nixon Eisenhower Is The Only Member Of The Nixon Administration Who Has Any Credibility--and, As One Journalist Put It, This Is Not To Say That Anyone Believes What She Is Saying But Simply That People Believe She Believes What She Is Sayingit Is Almost As If She Is The Only Woman In America Over The Age Of Twenty Who Still Thinks Her Father Is Exactly What She Thought He Was When She Was Six.

I Was Just Taking Her Hand To Help Her Out Of A Car And I Knew. It Was Like... Magic.

I’m Really Not Interested In Women As Victims. Look At Me, I Get The Last Laugh ‘cause I Get To Be Funny About It.