I'll Have What She's Having

That's Your Problem! You Don't Want To Be In Love. You Want To Be In Love In A Movie.

You Can Settle For Reality, Or You Can Go Off, Like A Fool, And Dream Another Dream.

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.

Oh, How I Regret Not Having Worn A Bikini For The Entire Year I Was Twenty-six. If Anyone Young Is Reading This, Go, Right This Minute, Put On A Bikini, And Don't Take It Off Until You're Thirty-four.

From The Essay "twenty-five Things People Have A Shocking Capacity To Be Surprised By Over And Over Again" 1. Journalists Sometimes Make Things Up. 2. Journalists Sometimes Get Things Wrong. 3. Almost All Books That Are Published As Memoirs Were Initially Written As Novels, And Then The Agent/editor Said, This Might Work Better As A Memoir. 6. Freedom Of The Press Belongs To The Man Who Owns One.