“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

“In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she didn't feel much different than she had before. Time kept going by and she was just here, the same.”

“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”

“As a child, my own mother told me the human heart spun on an axis smaller than a dime. Like her father, she sold "life for love" insurance. For the price of ten years off your life, you could purchase insurance on a ten-year love affair. Plans were also available in increments of twenty-five and fifty. If your love affair failed before your insurance expired, they'd provide you with a clone of the loved one for the duration of the term. Sometimes the clone worked out even better than the original.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”