"I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story."

"Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know."

"I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines."

"I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip."

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

"Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care."

"But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."