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“Every time I get ready to chuck it, I remind myself that I can accomplish a lot in that little minute, and they remember what I say.”
“I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.”
“I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.”
“The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.”
“Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.”
“Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.”