Tracy McMillan

The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won't. Once the initial high wears off, you'll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something -- it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession -- a free-agent penis -- and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.

Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Everything works out in the end. if it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end.