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I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

I think I'll move to Australia.

It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image. - Colette

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational, but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

There is no ache more Deadly than the striving to be oneself. - Yevgeniy Vinokurov

We love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent
if he acts normal.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.