I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'