"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by bri..." — Candice Bergen

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.