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Lisa Kogan
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“[On husbands and their mothers:] Go easy on your husband. Of course his mom knows how to push all his buttons — she's the one who installed them.”
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“My recent apartment renovation consisted of turning over the sofa cushions, then realizing they looked better the other way.”
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“... one of the exquisite ironies of being a parent is you get to stay up as late as you want, but all you want is to go to bed early.”
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“They discontinued my favorite lipstick. It was called Peach Melba and it made me look thin.”
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“New York City is not for the faint of heart. For one thing, it is a very expensive place to live. The price for every single activity — whether it's sending your child to nursery school or buying a cappuccino or parking in a garage — is $11,000.”
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“We are an entire generation of women who are making up our lives as we go along.”
Lisa Kogan, U.S. columnist, writer
(1966)