"I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!"

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Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

— Carol Muske-Dukes