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One Of The Things People Always Say To You If You Get Upset Is, Don't Take It Personally, But Listen Hard To What's Going On And, Please, I Beg You, Take It Personally. Understand: Every Attack On Hillary Clinton For Not Knowing Her Place Is An Attack On You. Underneath Almost All Those Attacks Are The Words: Get Back, Get Back To Where You Once Belonged.

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.

What I Love About Cooking Is That After A Hard Day, There Is Something Comforting About The Fact That If You Melt Butter And Add Flour And Then Hot Stock, It Will Get Thick!

My Closet Is Full Of Sad Little Scripts That Didn't Get Made That Have Sad Endings. It's Very Hard To Get A Movie Made That Has A Sad Ending.

I Have A Theory That Children Remember Two Things-when You Weren't There And When They Threw Up.