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Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be. ”
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. ”
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ”
Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy. ”
I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it. ”
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ”
Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was. ”
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president. ”
I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little. ”
We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy. ”