Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

Every patient tends to bury the most important story inside some other story, just the way new writers often 'bury the lede.' 'Burying the lede' is an old journalism term for when you only find out the real point about halfway into the article, but it also applies to therapy.

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

I regard other women as my community, not my competition.

I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

If you believe that your best years are behind you, you've guaranteed they are; I'm going to dance into that good night, with the oldies turned up loud.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Like love, breakfast is best when made at home.

My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.

Sometimes things can take a very long time and still not be very good. It took us all of evolutionary history just to get where we are today, for instance, and mostly where we are today is on the couch.

The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery.

Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

Its not that diamonds are a girls best friend but its your best friends who are your diamonds.

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.