“Men got better with age, like wine. Women, on the other hand, were like cheese- aged was good to a degree, then came the mold and the inevitable casting aside.”

“There were two things a girl learned to do simultaneously at a very young age: knee a guy in the crotch and scream at the top of her lungs.”

“When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.”

“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”

“I'm human. The single most overused excuse on the planet for doing the absolute wrong thing.”

“Matt felt vindicated. See. If he'd rushed things and let his passion get the upper hand he might not have learned whether she like beef.”

“We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.”