Quotes from Marcia's Book

On Celebrity:  "Some guy came up to me and said “It's  you, right?”  I said, “Well, actually it is, uh huh.”  He said, “Wait a minute, I gotta go get my wife.”  So he runs off, he drags this poor woman back.  He said, “See, I told you it's her.”  She said “It is not!  It is not that nurse from Poughkeepsie.”

On Trying to get Pregnant:  “To have grown up in the era we did, to have worried ourselves sick about birth control our whole lives, and then want to get pregnant and can't.  It's just the original “HA!”

On Adoption: (Describing the close relationship with her son's birth mother and sharing her with their son), “Our feeling was always, that we're his parents, and you can't have too many people who love you.  And the truth never hurt anybody.”

On her Husband's Cancer:  “This huge wrecking ball came crashing into my heart and I thought … I'll never survive this.  But I said, ‘Okay my darling, okay …’  I let him go and he died days later.”

On Debt and Dying:  Marcia found herself selling her house (unsuccessfully) in this tragic-comic scene. “So you walk into the front door, and there in the living room is this nude, dying guy, hooked up to IV's and this demented woman from The Bob Newhart Show: ‘HELLO, HOW ARE YOU, IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN SHOW YOU!!!!??????’

On Death:  At her husband's body, moments after he had died of pancreatic cancer:  “And I'm sitting there, just feeling him and the doorbell rings and it's the $25 worth of Thai food I had ordered!  And I actually did say to him … “You're dead 3 minutes and I've got food at the door!”

On Weight: “I took off for New York City the day I graduated from college.  I weighed 230 pounds and I had $150 in the bank.  When people ask me, “How do you break into show business?” I say, “Well, first of all, your ready cash should at least equal your weight.”

On Show Business Success:  “You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women.  But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.” 

On Single Life:  “So I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people.  And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number, but at the end of the evening he gave it back.”

On Buddhism:  “I've always said I'd worship a chicklet if it worked, so I started chanting after my heart was broken and my dogs died … And now here's me, feeling so good I have to take naps.  And listen, we don't shave our heads, we don't wear sheets and we don't ask for money at the airport.  We just chant to tap into the best part of ourselves – I told my mother that, and she asked me not to get it on her rug.”

On Widowhood and Life after Death: I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.  I really do believe that Dennis and I will be together again, that we'll always be together in some mystical way.”

This is a book for anyone who has felt unloved and unattractive, been broke, experienced failure, been fat and thin and fat again, had a fire, had cancer and/or a nervous breakdown, and been widowed.  This is also a book for anyone who has found love in midlife, experienced success, adopted a child, had a spiritual awakening, flourished from the love of family and friends and started all over again after losing a spouse .. or would like to.  And would like to hear about it from a woman who can still “count her lucky chickens,” a woman who makes you laugh out loud and a woman you feel like you've known your entire life.

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