Quote from "Desperation"
 (ISBN 0670868361) 
by Stephen King
1996, published by Viking: 

"The Ellen Carver who had raised two lovely children and had kept her man when those 
all about her were losing theirs? The one who examined her breasts for lumps once every 
six weeks or so, the one who liked to curl up in the living room on weekend nights with a 
cup of hot tea and a few chocolates and paperbacks with titles like Misery in Paradise? 
Really? Oh really? Well, yes, probably; she was those Ellens and a thousand others..."