Gail Parent

“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.”

“When you're a writer, you're a writer. It's not a job, it's a condition.”

“A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.”

“In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had shame. And it worked.”

“Sheila Levine is dead and living in New York.”

“Show me a woman who is a good loser and I'll show you a woman who is playing games with her husband.”

“I think funny is an attitude.”

“I always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was 9. It was a compulsion.”

“You have to have a sense of humor, darling, to be alive. Even a dead one.”