Occupation: Journalist Birth: 1928
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you..
And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untid….
Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money..
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong..
Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never com….
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts..
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys..
It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation..
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel..
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences..
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes..
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head..
There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation ….
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the ….
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to..
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking….
In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them..
Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really ….
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on….
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly ….
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?.