[on The Screenplay For "when Harry Met

There's A Reason Why Forty, Fifty, And Sixty Don't Look The Way They Used To, And It's Not Because Of Feminism, Or Better Living Through Exercise. It's Because Of Hair Dye. In The 1950's Only 7 Percent Of American Women Dyed Their Hair; Today There Are Parts Of Manhattan And Los Angeles Where There Are No Gray-haired Women At All.

The Desire To Get Married, Which - I Regret To Say, I Believe Is Basic And Primal In Women - Is Followed Almost Immediately By An Equally Basic And Primal Urge - Which Is To Be Single Again.

The Washington Press Corps Thinks That Julie Nixon Eisenhower Is The Only Member Of The Nixon Administration Who Has Any Credibility--and, As One Journalist Put It, This Is Not To Say That Anyone Believes What She Is Saying But Simply That People Believe She Believes What She Is Sayingit Is Almost As If She Is The Only Woman In America Over The Age Of Twenty Who Still Thinks Her Father Is Exactly What She Thought He Was When She Was Six.

And Don't Be Frightened: You Can Always Change Your Mind. I Know: I've Had Four Careers And Three Husbands.

Too Few Journalists Become Screenwriters. I Say To All The Would-be Screenwriters: Become Journalists. And I’ll Say To Working Journalists: Do Not Stay Journalists. Become Screenwriters.