“ Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won’t have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don’t mean to be too literal about this. There are a couple of old boyfriends whom I always worry about bumping into, but there’s no chance - if I ever did - that I would recognize either of them. On top of which they live in other cities. But the point is that I still think about them every time I’m tempted to leave the house without eyeliner. ”
Nora Ephron in “I hate my neck: and other thoughts about being a woman.” She. Is absolutely brilliant. After all, she did write When Harry Met Sally among many other great movies.