"What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.