I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel. - Anna Quindlen

My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because of how crowded it in the drawers of our minds.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.